All Are Precious In His Sight
Pixabay One of the lines in a play I saw this week quoted a New Testament skeptic who said, " Can anything good come out of Nazareth? " (John 1:46). Prejudice comes in all forms and sizes, and obviously isn't anything new! Jesus was known to have been brought up in Nazareth and was sometimes referred to as the Nazarene. Apparently Nazareth didn't have much of a reputation and people being what people are, race, colour, religion, gender, physical appearance, age, and hometown, can influence people's opinions. And if we are wrong to judge people based on race, colour, religion and all the others, then it must also be wrong to judge someone based on their hometown! Well, it might be wrong, but it still happens. And the Lord carried around the stigma of being from Nazareth for all of His earthly life. It makes you wonder why God orchestrated the life of His Son so that He was raised in Nazareth. Why not some other more popular place? But then again, why ...